| A Form of Art
October 28, 2009 at 9:07 pm
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| | Many people harbor a lot of different definitions for the form of art known as "painting". However, in reality, it is merely a simple way to express the person's inner most desire. It has been practiced for more than thirty thousand years now, in every part of the world. |
| Renaissance Paintings
October 28, 2009 at 8:39 pm
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| | Renaissance art represents the best known traditional art movement which remains popular today, some 500 years later. Indeed, its greatest contributors are still household names around the world and respected as highly as any artists of the more modern painting eras. This renaissance article aims to identify the most famous renaissance paintings and explain a little about each. |
| Todays Painters Palette
October 28, 2009 at 8:07 pm
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| | Hello and welcome back to another great article about oil painting. If you're just joining us I think it's great but I would highly encourage you to go back and read the previous articles on some great points that you may have missed. What we are discussing these articles are amazing points that the person who is new to oil painting should not miss. |
| The Classic Palette For Painting
October 28, 2009 at 8:06 pm
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| | Hello and welcome back to another great article on oil painting for the beginner. If you're just joining us out of deeply encourage you to go back and see our other articles so that you can catch up with the rest of the group. In our articles we are going to discuss some great tips for the beginner oil painter. |
| A Palette Primer For the Beginner
October 28, 2009 at 8:06 pm
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| | Hello and welcome back to another great article on oil painting for the beginner. In today's article I'm going to talk about what exactly a palette is. Hopefully you've been with us all along, but if not I would greatly suggest that you check with our other articles to see what you've missed. |
| Choosing the Right Oil Painting Brush For the Beginner - Size Matters
October 28, 2009 at 8:06 pm
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| | Hello and welcome back to another great article about oil painting for the beginner. If you're just joining us, I deeply encourage you to go back and read our previous articles as they contain a lot of information you will need to know. If you've been following along with us, great! |
| More Info on Oil Painting Brushes For the Beginner
October 28, 2009 at 8:06 pm
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| | Since we started these great articles our goal has been to make sure that you buy the supplies you need to begin a great hobby in oil painting yet not spend a super large amount of money doing it. As a beginner your brush selection does not need to be as vast as it would be if you were a well experienced painter. |
| Four Brush Types For the Oil Painter
October 28, 2009 at 8:06 pm
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| | If you are new to oil painting you may appreciate the explanation of these four basic brush types. Oil painting is a great hobby that you can enjoy for years to come. |
| Great Tips About Oil Painting Brushes For the Beginner
October 28, 2009 at 8:05 pm
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| | This is a short article with information about China bristle, synthetic, and sable brushes. If you are new to oil painting, you should find this informative. |
| Finding Oil Painting Supplies
October 28, 2009 at 7:40 pm
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| | If you are looking for a few great tips on finding oil painting supplies, come on in and let's chat. Oil painting supplies don't have to be as expensive as you might hear that they are... |
| Guide to Maggi Hambling - Famous Resident in Suffolk UK
October 28, 2009 at 6:42 pm
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| | Maggi Hambling is a household name in British art for her work as a figurative painter, sculptor and printmaker, whose strong identification with her subjects is expressed boldly. Maggi's work can be seen in the British Museum, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Collection, The Gulbenkian Foundation, and many other public collections across the UK and abroad. Maggi has many connections with Suffolk, having been born there and created the Scallop sculpture on Aldeburgh beach. Continue reading for more information. |
| How to Start a Webcomic - Basic Steps and Tools
October 28, 2009 at 3:26 pm
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| | This article will touch briefly on how to start a webcomic in a few basic steps. It will be suitable for any aspiring manga or comic artist who desires to start their webcomic with a low budget. |
| A Heart in Mt Washington - Raphael Matias' Inner World
October 28, 2009 at 3:15 pm
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| | His friends call him a "mosaic painter." It may take him six months to a year to complete one piece, but he does so in his semi-secluded abode, filled with art he has collected from his life abroad in South Africa, his travels, and friends living throughout the world. |
| Order Your Favorite Photo to Be Printed on Canvas Immediately
October 28, 2009 at 3:10 pm
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| | Canvas is a plain weave fabric formed from cotton, linen, jute and hemp. A canvas print, also called as a stretched canvas or canvas art, is the outcome of an image printed onto canvas which is stretched, or gallery-wrapped, onto a frame and displayed. Printing your photos on canvas could change everything - your photos may possibly be the heart of your home. |
| Figure Drawing Explained - The Essentials of Figure Drawing
October 28, 2009 at 1:03 pm
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| | This article walks artists through the basics of figure drawing and how it is important to learn skill of figure drawing. Figure drawing has core principles that can be learned to incorporate into all drawing skills. Once you master figure drawing, you can draw anything. |
| Choosing Oil Paint Brushes
October 28, 2009 at 12:22 pm
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| | If you are new to painting, this is a good short article for you to read about brushes. I'm just giving you a couple tips to help you get started. |
| What Oil Paint Colors You Need to Own
October 28, 2009 at 12:22 pm
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| | There are some basic paint colors that every artist should own. This is especially true if you are a newcomer to painting as a hobby. Here's a brief list of a couple colors that you will find universally helpful. |
| Three Tips For Finding Oil Painting Supplies at the Best Price
October 28, 2009 at 12:21 pm
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| | If you are starting out as a painter, we have 3 ideas that will save you some money. Oil painting can be a great hobby that you can enjoy for many years. |
| Paul Rand Logos
October 28, 2009 at 11:38 am
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| | Paul Rand was one of the biggest icons in graphic design. Rand, born as Peretz Rosenbaum on August 15, 1914, is best known for his innovative corporate logos which helped shape the future of many important companies. |
| African Arts - The Legend Among All Arts
October 28, 2009 at 11:21 am
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| | Art is a product of human creativity. It is a creation of beautiful and significant things. There are different arts in different countries. One of the famous art among all is the African art. |
| How to Find an Online Art Gallery
October 28, 2009 at 10:11 am
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| | Online art galleries also vary in their choices of featured artists. Some concentrate their exposure of well-known and experienced artists. But there are galleries that give equal exposure to both the new and the experienced artists. |
| The BYU Museum of Art Features an Extensive Art Collection
October 28, 2009 at 10:08 am
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| | The many museums that are dedicated to showcasing the art of different eras, peoples and cultures, are wonderful places to go to develop new understanding and insights about the artists and the message they are relaying through their art. Often, a sense of connection is developed between the museum patron and the artist. In some ways, thoughtfully viewing the pieces within a museum of art can even provide a spiritual experience and can bring about increased self awareness and understanding. |
| Graphic Design Packaging - Get Exclusive Insider Tips From a Professional Production Artist
October 28, 2009 at 9:12 am
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| | Production artists prepare beautiful package designs for print, they usually work very closely with graphic designers, both graphic artists and production artists are skilled in design. A production artist is very similar to a graphic designer, and the job duties between the two are often misconceived. |
| The Art of Advertising Design - Learn What it Takes to Be an Advertising Designer
October 28, 2009 at 9:11 am
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| | The art of advertising design or graphic creation is similar to that of a graphic designer. Some of the obvious differences between an advertising designer and a graphic designer are subtle but still are quite obvious. |
| What Happens Inside the Lens When Taking Photographs?
October 27, 2009 at 10:36 pm
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| | This article discusses what happens to light in a lens. It discusses how this can affect the quality of a photograph. |
| How to Choose Meaningful Abstract Canvas Art
October 27, 2009 at 10:28 pm
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| | Some people have this bad habit of buying abstract canvas art merely for the sake of buying it. Well, whatever they do with their own money is really their own business. However, is it not a shame for any piece of abstract canvas art to end up in some attic or basement or any storage room just because the person who got it bought it willy-nilly, without any thought to how the piece of art would fit in his or her home? | | | 
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Composition is one of the most important aspects of painting. A pleasing composition is one where shapes and colors in a painting are organized in such a way that there is a sense of balance. Creating a balanced and interesting composition is more challenging that it may appear. If something is out of place or wrong, the viewer is left confused or uninterested. The following tips should help steer you in the right direction. RULE OF THIRDS The rule of thirds is a tool made popular by photographers but equally important to painters and is used to help artists create a strong and balanced composition. There are certain things you can do to the composition of a painting that will make it unbalanced or unpleasing to the eye. For instance, a common mistake is to place the focal point of a painting directly in the center. Another common mistake is to split the painting directly in half as in a landscape painting where the horizon line is directly in the middle of the painting. To construct a rule of thirds, equally divide your canvas or other support into thirds by drawing two equally spaced vertical and horizontal lines on your support. You would then arrange the important compositional elements of your painting along these lines or on the points of intersection. The rule of thirds is a broad topic that would take up an entire article all on its own. I highly recommend you do additional research on this topic. FOCAL POINT The focal point in your painting is the main element or subject in your painting and should attract the viewers eye. All other elements in the composition of your painting should help to guide the users eye to this focal point. Using Color as a Focal Point An excellent method for creating a focal point in your painting is by using color. For instance, you could have a painting that is predominantly blue and make the focal point stand out by using yellow. This warm yellow will stand out against the cool blues in the rest of the painting. Using Contrast as a Focal Point Another excellent method for creating a focal point in your painting is by using contrast. For instance you could use mainly dark values in your painting and create a center of interest that is light in value. Using Size as a Focal Point You could utilize size differences in your painting to create a focal point. For instance, if you were to create a city scape, you could make a tall skyscraper stand out amongst smaller buildings. NUMBER OF ELEMENTS It is often recommended when composing a painting, that you use an odd number of elements. No one is exactly sure why this works. One theory is that a viewer mentally groups even elements together thereby breaking up the composition. DISTANCE BETWEEN OBJECTS If you have more than one object in a painting, you need to carefully consider how to arrange them with regards to the distance between them. Objects should never "just touch" one another. You should either overlap objects or have space between them. Try not to equally space objects, but instead, vary the distance between objects to create more variety. COLOR TEMPERATURE When composing a painting, you should either choose a predominately warm or cool color theme. Do not mix the two into one painting or you could confuse the viewer. This is not to say you cannot use warm and cool colors together in a painting. Just try and make one more dominant than the other. VALUE Value is how light or dark a color is in your painting. A painting that is all one value is boring. You need to have a variety of light and dark objects in a painting to create more interest. TOOLS FOR CAPTURING A SCENE Often, there is a lot going on in our surrounding environment. It can be difficult to frame a scene and imagine a composition without the use of certain tools. I find the following two tools to be extremely helpful in capturing a scene. Using a View Finder A view finder is a handy little tool to have. It is basically two L-Shaped pieces of cardboard that when placed together create a frame. You then look through this frame to capture your scenes. Using a Digital Camera Another great way to capture a scene is by using a digital camera. Looking through a digital camera gives you an obvious way to frame a scene, but it also gives you a way to take snapshots and return to your studio and further analyze the composition or add various effects to them.
The pencil is formed by a mixture of powdered natural graphite and clay baked in some specific temperatures.
According to the hardness of the refill a bigger or smaller proportion of graphite-clay is used . Bigger clay offers bigger hardiness. Varieties of pencils 
At the moment you can obtain 3 different varieties: the traditional one (graphite refill encapsulated inside a wooden wrapper of cedar), the propelling pencil (pens with very fine refills of graphite) or the bar pencil (Similar to the propelling pencils but with thicker and more resistant graphite bars. Approx.. 5 mm in diameter). Hardness As it has also previously been said, the clay proportion will determine the hardness of the refill. The pencil can be classified in two groups according to their hardness: Hard pencils: With dry, tenacious , grayish and something narrower refill.
Soft pencils: with oily, fragile, dark and thicker refill.
Inside these two classifications a wide gradient of options exists which can satisfy all the demands , ranging from the superhard pencil to the supersoft one . To be able to differentiate them, besides testing them on the paper, and experiencing in our own skin the diverse tones that they generate, we must observe the numeration or the letters printed on the wooden cane.
Hard pencils offer the letter H (hard, hard in English) or high numbers: 3,4,5,6...
Soft pencils, on the contrary, are identified by the letter B (bold, marked in English) or low numbers 0,1...
Although, continuing with the previous outline, we can also find those that mix numbers and letters to differentiate the diverse hardness:
Hard pencils are defined by the letter H continued by a number (when higher, harder): 2H, 3H, 4H, 5H...
Soft pencils are defined by the letter B continued by a number (when higher, softer):2B, 3B, 4B, 5B... Equivalencies: numbers and letters | NUMBERS | LETTERS | | 1 | 2B | | 2 | HB | | 3 | H | | 4 | 3H | Election of the pencil The pencils can have the exterior (chassis or cane) made with wood or plastic, being generally the first ones of smaller quality and addressed to a younger public.
Besides the wrapping material, we can also select their external form: rounded or hexagonal.
The rounded ones, besides being more difficult to sharpen (They slid among the fingers when we apply pressure) they are very unstable on the drawing table. Many tables are slightly sloped what makes our pencil rotate towards the floor. This way the pencil tip can break or the refill can be spoilt in a thousand pieces. (Once the refill fragments it is almost impossible to continue drawing with that pencil, since , when doing some line on the paper, the refill will move or will simply fall .). The hexagonal mine will solve this great problem.
The election of the hardness depends on the use we will give to our pencil: For great precision drawing , just as the lineal drawing, hard refills conserve the fine line and they don't stain the paper. They can produce very clean results . If our objective is to carry out rather artistic works, soft refills will provide bigger expressivity and flexibility to the artist.
How to draw cartoon cars? Imagination, Creativity, and Innovation is always the main 3 key to create real nice and attractive cartoon cars. If you look at the muscle car drawings, you will find the imagination is very important because you will have to draw what you see on the road on to a piece of paper and present it like a cartoon cars which probably with an exaggerated nose, mouth or eye in the windscreen space. Let’s start with some simple example to customize a car and by drawing some cartoon face. Step 1 – Draw the cartoon face Let’s start our drawing by sketch out 2 big round and shining eyes. Sketch out 2 circles where bigger circle cover a smaller and darker circle to form the eye. Draw some lines in between the eye to form the nose and a banana look-alike mouth. Drawing a cute face is important, if the face is cute, your cartoon car will look cute even on a Lamborghini limo, a long limo with a cute cartoon face on it! 
Step 2 – Extend the cartoon face with car body Here we go to draw the body of the car which attaches to the face we drawn in Step 1. Sketch out the line and draw the car bumper under the mouth which will make it look like the chin. This step you can customize your own car in anyway, you can even draw the side mirror as the ear of the face. 
Step 3 – Cool wheels, cool rims, cool tires! Now is the step to add the wheels and tires as the “leg”. 2 simple circles will do, color up the outer circle with black to make it as tires. The size of the circles determines the size of a car rim. Bigger, more pimped? Tricked out cars? Everything is according to your own preference. 
Step 4 – Cool car accessories Now draw another wheel to complete the base. We will only have to draw 3 wheels since this is just a 2D drawing. Next is the sketch out the roof of the car by drawing an “n” look sketch. 
Step 5 – Complete the car A cool car or a basic car can’t lack with a steering. This step we complete the car roof top, a frame bar and also the steering wheel. Well, if you would like to draw a cabriolet car like Ferrari 360 Spider, you do not have to draw the roof. Last but not least, you can scribble some marks like “ =3 ” behind the car to indicate whether the car is speeding with smoke or in braking mode. So, have you learn how to draw cartoon cars? 
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